Gamers often find themselves at a hard end of the audio spectrum, things are isolateed to headphone jacks or optical jacks and the rare situation where someone uses a few splicers to turn their headphone jacks into 6 audio out jacks. It never seems to be a pretty picture and most of the time the easy way out is just hooking up a 5.1 in a box to just get into action instead. The problem of course is the quality suffers most of the time using plastic cabinets without porting and no remote insulation of any form to help supplement the sound. Hardcore users will take the next step and use a digital line to their recievver to hook up a pair of bookshelf speakers and get some respectable sound but for those who want something more the KRK Rokit 8 seems to fill that void.

The G2 series is running about with great specs showing a Glass Aramid composite Woofer giving people some strength and flex for high power situations, while everything has a breaking point the use of this reduces the issue quite a bit and provides a wide range of frequency response without reaching a distortion point so fast that everything peaks and the driver goes into overload.

Key things to know:

Rokit 5 G2:

5" Woofer with dedicated 1" Tweeter
XLR support with RCA and TRS connection support.
75 Watt dynamic power bi-amp, 18dB Octave Filters
53Hz-20kHz response range per cabinet

Rokit 6 G2:

6" Woofer with dedicated 1" Tweeter
XLR support with RCA and TRS connection support
100 Watt dynamic power bi-amp 24dB Octave Filters
49Hz-20kHz response range per cabinet

Rokit 8 G2

8" Woofer with dedicated 1" Tweeter
XLR support with RCA and TRS connection support
150 Watt dynamic power bi-amp 24dB Octave Filters
45Hz-20kHz response range per cabinet

The cabinet focuses on audio response over high end abuse, the thing to note is that the 150w power rating is a great sign of actual output instead of using inflated burst / pmpo ratings and it signals a brief end to the often second thought inclusions of a subwoofer to make up for a lack of low frequency response by the actual drivers like many companies end up doing right now as the company has invested in the hardware itself. The XLR, RCA and TRS support seal the deal for many audio professionals with high end connection compatibilty.

For $300 - $500 set the Rokit isn't exactly cheap but it has the potential to deliver audio quality that rivals the $300 kits running around right now. For the more audiophile based users the sets will probably be quite a nice touch as some younger gamers often desire EAX5 with 7.1 over something that might provide higher quality output. If we get a chance to put these to the test we surely will, I've sampled KRK monitors in the past few months and the potential is pretty wild and very defined.

Anyone wanting more info can hit their site krksys.com